Category: Thoughts (Page 14 of 16)

Well look who spoke up

March 1, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

The only people to stand up to islamic threat is the group of people already run from the muslims.
This is what they had to say!!

“After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global threat: Islamism,” the manifesto says.

“We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.”

Well what can I say about these people. Rushdie still has a fatwa against him, Ayaan Hirsi Ali also lives a life protected on every step by the gvot securtity forces, Taslima Nasreen was kicked out of a muslim country, Irshad just got a good lecturing fromthe Angry Arab that day and soo on.

Well why dont these people study islam first and then try to question it. They are not intellectuals or writers, they are just attention seekers. They thought hey the iron is hot and it is time for them to make their mark and get their 20mins of fame again. so here they are with their suggestions.

Sorry guys your opinion is not needed.

STATEMENT SIGNATORIES
Salman Rushdie – Indian-born British writer with fatwa issued ordering his execution for The Satanic Verses
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Somali-born Dutch MP
Taslima Nasreen – exiled Bangladeshi writer, with fatwa issued ordering her execution
Bernard-Henri Levy – French philosopher
Chahla Chafiq – Iranian writer exiled in France
Caroline Fourest – French writer
Irshad Manji – Ugandan refugee and writer living in Canada
Mehdi Mozaffari – Iranian academic exiled in Denmark
Maryam Namazie – Iranian writer living in Britain
Antoine Sfeir – director of French review examining Middle East
Ibn Warraq – US academic of Indian/Pakistani origin
Philippe Val – director of Charlie Hebdo

Link to the Article is here

University of California Irvine and Muslims

March 1, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

I guess no one is working hard enough to make things better for muslims but infact it is becoming much more harder for muslims. I dont understand why they would want to have a discussion with a group like Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny which is endorsed by Hannity of Fox News and is very conservative. Couldnt they see it coming.
Then CAIR decided not to attend the session so muslims had no represenation. Also from the article it very clear the crowd was biased and it was just a muslim bashing session.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/03/01/ap2560953.html

Hate for Islam

February 28, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

I am very much convinced that this issue with Prophet’s Cartoon has opened up a new window into the west. Muslims always believed the view put out by the west that the west was very tolerant and calm, they have proven this wrong sometime back.
My constant search on Technorati.com for blogs relating to islam resulted in blogs which are pure Hate against Islam or prophet. They will speak about free speech and crap but they dont realise that it is not free speech. Free speech is only when it has something to do with Modern Western Values, this can include thinking other countries and cultures to be degrading and insulting them.
What is not free speech includes “questioning free socities immoral values, their governments, Illegal wars initiated by them and many more”.

Needless to say it is very clear that Muslims and Islam is hated very much all across the board by non-muslims. It was just one incident that removed this veil from the true actions of the these people.

To top this off the whole deal with the UAE company came forward and now it is an Arab country and people dont want anything from an arab country in their ports. But they dont have a problem with their #rd Naval Fleet based there or Military bases there. Isnt it just hate..

I am sure you are thinking what crap am i talking about but here are some simple search on islam. look at this Search.
See this link and see how much of Islam hate is out there.

Arshad Manji gets it good :)

February 27, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

I got this from http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/02/19/manji-gets-a-pasting/

OK, it’s nothing to do with gay Muslims, but I couldn’t resist sharing this Democracy Now head to head between lesbian refusenik Irshad Manji and “Angry Arab” As’ad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at California State University.

You can watch the show: [128k] [256k] – the relevant part is after 5:10. Also here’s a transcript:

Freedom of Speech or Incitement to Violence? A Debate Over the Publication of Cartoons of Prophet Muhammed and the Global Muslim Protests

AbuKhalil gives it to her good, and though it might have been better if they had got a Muslim guest on to do the job, his honesty in identifying himself as an atheist puts him in a suitable position to lambast Manji for her sick hypocrisy.

Here’s a blog post of his about her.

Progressive Islaam

February 26, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

Hmmmmm…

Muslims Wake Up, which was the blog name I saw on some site, which had a lot of interesting blogs and forum links. Well the title is not accurate; it should be Progressive Muslims Wake Up.
I realize that there is a lot of stuff that happens in the Muslim world which has nothing to do with Islam. Honor Killings are not Islamic, women are honored in Islam. Honor killing is a cultural aspect, not an Islamic tradition. Polygamy is a fact in Islam but if and only if you can do justice with your spouses and not violate their rights. Shariah and Hadood are a fact and should be prescribed in a Muslim country. Homosexuality is forbidden in the Quran and it is an act not welcome in any religion. There are so many things I can write here but I will put a stop to it.

I just imagine if the prophet was here during this time, what his opinion would be. Well he will not be happy with overall Muslims. They are not united or strong. They are fighting among themselves in so many sects. Muslims prefer non Muslims each other. Muslim’s love for the world is greater than for their own salvation. So many problems that exist in the Muslim societies but I just want to talk about one. i.e. Progressive Muslims

I am not a religious authority or not even enough learned about Islam but I can see a problem if there is one. Progressive Muslims have gotten a lot of attention in the recent years, due to their defiance of the Men’s dominance of Islam. A lot of women are spearheading this effort but men are also equally involved. Islam has never discouraged women’s role but the societies have done that very much. Islam came to give women rights in a society that never gave any to women.

Women leading the jumah and a lot of Muslims (men or women) praying behind them together.
Accepting Homosexuality in Islam.
No respect for Hijab.

I don’t know I was never brought up in a society that was conservative. My family was very liberal and I think I am still very liberal. But what is wrong is wrong. If I say the earth is flat, it doesn’t become flat or if I believe that it doesn’t become flat. Facts are facts, Islam has a lot of history and that history has been preserved maybe for days like this when people try to change Islam for their convenience.

If having illegitimate relations and having a child out of wedlock is acceptable in the society then I feel that we have reached that threshold which was told in the ahadith about days before the Day of Judgment.
Islam teaches us good things and noble aspects of human personality. If you believe in God you should obey the word of Allah. Let’s not try to find ways out of his laws. As the children of Israel did to fish on Fridays but not on the Sabbath and what happened to them is in the Quran. I guess we should learn from those lessons and ask Allah for forgiveness.

State of our education

February 19, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

While browsing the Website for the higher education department at the ministry of education. i came to know we only have 47 universities in Pakistan accredited by HEC. Amazing isn’t it. We are the people were able to develop nukes and have one of the biggest armies but we don’t have enough institutions for higher education.

I was reading that India has more universities than all the universities combined. Why is that? Why we are so behind countries like India and China. We have a smaller country than these two and to have an infrastructure like them should be easier.

Is it because that we have a high military budget.(if we have a huge budget in billions for the military then why we didn’t have enough helicopters for the rescue ops during earth quake relief)

Is it due to the feudals still sucking the blood out of our country and they don’t want to have educated people in their lands.

Is it because our Political Leaders have become accustomed to raping our resources and economy.

Is it because we are not run by our people but by outside forces.

Just some food for the thought.

The whole issue of cartoon and Insult to Prophet Muhammad

February 8, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

After this whole issue started, I started doing some research online about the issue. I came across quite a few sites which were more offensive than the cartoon originally done by the Danish newspaper. It seems that people hate Muslims quite a lot in certain parts of the world.
I wouldnâ€™t include the links to the following stupid sites as we are not like them. We should tolerate such actions and it is ignorance on the part of such people who have such sites just to offend Muslims.
The blog called The Study of Revenge on blogspot was very offensive and includes a non acceptable image of the prophet.
Then there is a site called Muhammad Believe it or Else is very offensive.
Muhammad’s Image Archive on zombie online had quite a lot of images and most of them are offensive but interestingly quite a few are from Persian cultures. (I donâ€™t know what the Persians wanted by drawing the Prophet’s Images)
Aarons Blog or funny images whatever you want to call it is useless and a clear hate site. Although it seems he is a Jew so I guess he takes it as his God given right to do blasphemy. (Sore Loser)

There are too many sites out there and this has been going on for quite a while. Sadly there are worse cartoons done in the past than the ones in the Danish paper. I would just hope and pray that Muslims understand their position in this world and give attention to stuff that is more serious. I donâ€™t imply that the cartoon are not a serious issue, they are very serious but the scholars of Islam are there to judge the position and I have not heard of a single fatwa about this issue. Until then we can protest but killings and torching tells the world that we are savages. As for these cartoon makers Inshallah Allah will deal with them in the after life and on the Day of Judgment.

Orkut

February 5, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

I finally got someone to send me an invitation to orkut and man i love it. I have been able to find soo many people on it whom i thought would never see online. it is an amazing online place.

Memories

January 12, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

Today, i was trying to google all the names i could think of guys i knew from islamabad. Interesting it didnt turn up anything interesting. What led me to write this blog was the sad aspect that i couldnt remember alot of names.

Ofcourse i remembered Umair, Touha Imran who i remember very much. rest of the cloudy memory resulted in the names of Salman Aizaz, Adeel Ahmad, Faisal Haroon (ICB) and then blanks :(.

Kinda sad that i have already forgotten inthe short span of 7 years all the people i knew back in islamabad.

cant people ever grow up

January 8, 2006 / rubeel / 0 Comments

I would presume when you are above the age of 24, you have matured enough to carry out an interesting conversation or keep quite if you have no idea abotu the subject matter. But it is amazing people who are married and not married but old enough, some how manage to ignore that they sound wrong and confusioing when they speak. sometimes it is obvious that they are trying to speak about a matter which they have no knowledge about.
what is wrong with such people, do they think that by stating a comment about anything without knowledge people will respect them, infact the opposite is true for them. People think bad of them.

Same goes for people who want to jump into conversations and use some key words to try to make people believe that they are DA BOMB (or simple english TOO COOL).

common guys, it is like that snickers add where the dude is wearing the snickers on his head and his co workers tell him that you are not going to fool us, they know he is bald.

so to all the people who act smart on topics which they have no idea about.
COMMON GUYS, get some snickers and eat it. you are not going to fool me